Intellectual Property (was: KDE v. Gnome)

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From: Axel Boldt
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:00

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Patrick <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu> writes:

> On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Jason Clifford wrote:
>
> > Klaus Schilling said:
> >
> > >Intellectual Property is theft from the collective mind, thus downright
> > >evil. 
> > 
> > Oh dear. We appear to have a 'New Age Hippy' among us. Justify your
> > claim of the existance of this collective mind. Tell me the number I am
> > thinking of as I write this
> 
> I go with that too.  My mind and my ideas are MINE.  They are NOT the 
> property of some New Age "collective mind".  It is my mind and my mind 
> alone. 

Ok, let's start with the premise that whatever is in your head is
yours. You will grant me that whatever is in my head is mine. So as
soon as you tell me about one of your ideas, it enters my head and it
becomes mine. (It's still in your head as well, so it's also yours.)
If you want to claim exclusive property rights to an idea, you cannot
tell it to anybody. Anything else would mean that you claim property
rights to parts and structures of somebody else's body.

-- 
 Axel Boldt  **  axel@uni-paderborn.de  **  math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/

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From: Axel Boldt <axel@uni-paderborn.de>
Subject: Intellectual Property (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/09/28
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